Maroš Volovár

Maroš Volovár (1976), art historian and translator, studied art history at Comenius University in Bratislava and the theory and history of architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT). In 2010, he founded the Eastern Slovak Association VALAL, whose aim is to connect the Lowland Rusyns—a small community that has lived in Vojvodina since the 18th century—with their ancestral homeland in eastern Slovakia. He translates contemporary Rusyn literature into Slovak and Czech and promotes it throughout the Central European region.